‘TAKING TIME’

In her first section of the exhibition ‘Taking Time’ at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Kundoo displays her collection of collected objects demonstrating how she observes the world through the perspective of time. The passage of time leaves its imprint on the world around us. Even before man existed, architectural constructs existed. In other words, with the passage of time and various circumstances we see the evolution of matter, form, space and order. From sedimentary rocks to volcanic lava, ice formations, boulders shaped by water, etc. the earliest architecture was perhaps about the transformations of matter with the passage of time as it recorded the circumstances that left the imprint of time on the architecture of matter. Then there is the imprint time leaves on the architecture of life itself. The passage of time and life continues to shape matter by way of other programming that is contained in the DNA of the cells. The architecture of life is expressed through complex order and geometry, where form, space, light and all the key elements of architectural thinking come together synthetically and according to structural principles. The structures of trees and flowers, or mushrooms and shells, networks of arteries and veins whether in animals or in leaves, birds’ nests, termite hills, beehives and spiders’ webs, continue to inspire architecture for human habitation. Then there is the architecture of the mind, where the evolution of the mind and the ‘thinking hand’ have enabled an architecture where tools were created first, in turn leading to sophisticated developments that have shaped the fabric of architecture accordingly. The other sections of the exhibition show her design process and the resulting architecture covering 15 projects including a section on co-creation and the celebration of imperfection.